Sound familiar? The Appalachia region of America has mining communities with widespread poverty, a poor healthcare system, and rates of opioid addiction that are highest in the world.

Black lung is also back and worse than ever. Coal companies have a habit of denying disability claims until victims die an early death.

​Center for Public Integrity: Breathless and Burdened​Yearlong investigation examines how doctors and lawyers, working at the behest of the coal industry, have helped defeat the benefits claims of miners sick and dying of black lung, even as disease rates are on the rise and an increasing number of miners are turning to a system that was supposed to help alleviate their suffering.

Good news!The Johns Hopkins black-lung evaluation program that routinely sided with coal companies against the claims of miners who said they were suffering from pneumoconiosis has closed for good.
​Scroll down to learn more about poverty, addiction, and cancer rates in Appalachian mining communities. Click the image on the right to learn why America's victims of addiction are turning to heroin.

The Video that Ruined Larson's Televangelism Career

Poverty, Addiction, and Healthcare
Problems in American Mining Communities

Corporations and politicians gain financially, while holding the health and vote of Appalachia hostage with threat of employment leaving. As the information below shows, the human cost is severe.

"Free phone services subsidized by taxpayers even though they don't need them or qualify for them. Get this, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, is reportedly literally making a fortune off this U.S. government program.

Guest panelist Katie Pavlich:"On top of it, we're subsidizing cell phones for these people... Not only were people who aren't qualified getting these phones, they're actually selling them back for drug money and using the money from their sold Obamacare phones to buy drugs."

Pavlich's most recent book:

Assault & Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women

It's a two-part war—a war waged to make all women subscribe to certain social behavior, involving complete sexual "liberation" and "independence," and a war waged to convince women that the Democratic Party is the party that will give them everything they need to achieve that narrow-minded view on life—if they pledge their political allegiance. This is not about women's rights. It's about political power and the agenda of the Left, and how a radical feminist movement can conveniently fit into that power grab. Erasing the GOP's historical role in women's rights is key because it hides the plain truth of how the Left hijacked the movement and made it something that the original suffragettes never wanted or could imagine.

DemocracyNow:"For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia’s cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known as the 'crack' capital of the world."

Imagine when citizens didn't have access to the internet. The most vulnerable were easy victims. It is still a struggle.

Never Forget.

If you look at history, there has always been a champion of the poor against the social class with the most power and influence.

Abuse of the underserved is what happens when income inequality becomes vast and large segments of the population are marginalized.

When did class warrior become a negative thing? Class warriors have been the voice the American working class against "robber barons" since the 19th century.

"The reaction may indicate whether you're a powerful or powerless person, this study says, but it could also explain how inequality is maintained in society. Powerful people react swiftly when they are victims of unfairness, while less powerful people are slow to notice and react to injustice, according to research published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

"Power shapes how quickly you respond to self-related injustices.When people have a lot of power and resources, they come to feel like they deserve better outcomes than others," explains Takuya Sawaoka, Stanford University doctoral student who also authoredSocial anxiety and self-consciousness in binge eating disorder: Associations with eating disorder psychopathology."